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Financial Improvements/ Government out the techno-economically sustainable solutions,
funds applicable in India an open-minded, informed and progressive approach
in developing the configuration for a greenfield
Current Indian Govt. policies and programmes that project and prioritising the sustainability projects in a
could enable progress towards low emission steel brownfield installation may be a key to adopt and align
making are given below: with future.

PAT (Perform, Achieve, Trade) Scheme: Each system needs to be evaluated in terms of Input,
Aims to reduce industrial specific energy Internal Process, Output and Recycling capacity to
consumption using a market-based mechanism. arrive at a suitable carbon footprint, integrated into
overall plant product. The plant's success appears to
Steel Scrap Recycling Policy: be dependent on effective collaboration across sectors
Increasing the steel recycling rate is the primary of power, chemicals, digitalisation, automation, and
goal of the Steel Scrap Recycling Policy (Ministry environmental control measures, other than the core
of Steel, 2019c), promoting the 6Rs: Reduce, Reuse, process optimisations & development.
Recycle, Recover, Redesign and Remanufacture.

Promotion of R&D in Iron & Steel Sector Scheme:
Regarding public-sector funding, the Indian
government through the Ministry of Steel has
supported several R&D projects under this with
a total cumulative budget of more than USD 17
million over the past five years (Ministry of Steel,
2019a). Private companies in India such as SAIL,
RINLS, Tata Steel, and JSW, invest cumulatively USD
83.3 million in R&D per year.
Authors
Conclusion and Way Forward

Swadhin Acharya - Manager
Metallurgical industries in General and Iron & Steel Kaustav Das - General Manager
Industry in particular, are energy-intensive and Bratindra Narayan Dey - Senior General Manager
generate a significant amount of Green House Gas. Biman Dasgupta - Vice President
Innovative approaches in Energy optimisation, Waste
heat recovery, Scrap recycling, Gas based EAF will Tata Consulting Engineers Limited (TCE)
support shift towards green. Carbon capture and
utilisation/ storage and the use of green H2 for the
reduction process offer prospective solutions. Still,
adoption reality depends on the socio-economic thrust References:
and availability of required resources, including a • Energy-intensive industries Challenges and opportunities in
considerable quantity of renewable energy, technology the energy transition- Technical Report July 2020
maturity for commercial adoption.
• Iron & Steel Technology Roadmap – IEA
Adopting the fast development in digitalisation,
artificial intelligence and machine learning offers • IEA Technology Roadmap- Global Iron and Steel Sector
a considerable prospect in unfolding detailed -OECD Steel Committee Paris 22nd March 2019
information on the processes and optimisation in
energy consumption. While coming years will bring • Towards a low carbon steel sector- The Energy and
Resources Institute 2020

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